Patents by Inventor Masaya Yamamoto

Masaya Yamamoto has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240395461
    Abstract: A second busbar is provided that has a second electrode terminal and a second connection terminal. A first busbar is provided that has a first electrode terminal, a lateral side coupler, an overhang, and a first connection terminal. The first electrode terminal and/or the second electrode terminal has a protruding piece for connection (connecting protrusion). This protruding piece is elastically depressible in response to contact with an electrode surface of a capacitor element unit inserted from an opposite side of the lateral side coupler across a space between the first and second electrode terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Takashi MORI, Masaya YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240335210
    Abstract: An ultrasonic surgical instrument assembly including an irrigation sleeve assembly defining a lumen and an ultrasonic tip at least partially disposed within the lumen of the irrigation sleeve. The irrigation sleeve assembly may comprise a hub and an irrigation sleeve coupled to the hub. The irrigation sleeve may comprise an inner sheath and an outer sheath, both extending distally from the hub. The outer sheath may surround at least a portion of the inner sheath to define an irrigation passageway between the outer sheath and the inner sheath configured to deliver irrigation fluid to the surgical site. The distal end of the inner sheath may extend beyond the distal end of the outer sheath. Each of the inner and the outer sheath may be coupled to the hub by an annular sealing member configured to create fluid-tight seal between the hub and the respective inner and outer sheath.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: Stryker European Operations Limited
    Inventors: Masaya Yamamoto, Guillaume Gras, Hidefumi Ota
  • Patent number: 12100556
    Abstract: A second busbar is provided that has a second electrode terminal and a second connection terminal. A first busbar is provided that has a first electrode terminal, a lateral side coupler, an overhang, and a first connection terminal. The first electrode terminal and/or the second electrode terminal has a protruding piece for connection (connecting protrusion). This protruding piece is elastically depressible in response to contact with an electrode surface of a capacitor element unit inserted from an opposite side of the lateral side coupler across a space between the first and second electrode terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Nichicon Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Mori, Masaya Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12085517
    Abstract: This illumination optical system has a laser light source (301, 401, 501), a light collection optical system (311, 4il, 51i), and a support structure (312, 412) that is able to secure the laser light source and the light collection optical system, wherein the light from the laser light source is focused onto an object to be inspected (307, 407, 507). The light collection optical system includes a cylindrical mirror (306, 406, 506), and at least one cylindrical lens (304, 404a, 404b, 4G4c, 504a, 5046, 504c). The cylindrical mirror is an optical element that collects light in a first direction, and the cylindrical lens is an optical element that collects light in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The focal distance of the cylindrical lens to the object to be inspected is greater than the focal distance of the cylindrical mirror to the object to be inspected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Iwamatsu, Shunichi Matsumoto, Masaya Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12080142
    Abstract: An information presentation method includes: sequentially obtaining, from a first appliance, appliance data including an operation status of the first appliance; receiving, from a second appliance different from the first appliance, notification of an opportunity of presenting information by the second appliance; determining, after receiving the notification in the receiving, whether to present the information by the second appliance, based on the appliance data obtained in the sequentially obtaining; and instructing the second appliance to present the information when determining to present the information by the second appliance in the determining, and prohibiting the second appliance from presenting the information when determining not to present the information by the second appliance in the determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya Yamamoto, Tomoki Ogawa, Kunio Gobara, Atsushi Tanaka, Masashi Hitotsuya, Makoto Yoshino
  • Patent number: 12053199
    Abstract: An ultrasonic surgical instrument assembly including an irrigation sleeve assembly defining a lumen and an ultrasonic tip at least partially disposed within the lumen of the irrigation sleeve. The irrigation sleeve assembly may comprise a hub and an irrigation sleeve coupled to the hub. The irrigation sleeve may comprise an inner sheath and an outer sheath, both extending distally from the hub. The outer sheath may surround at least a portion of the inner sheath to define an irrigation passageway between the outer sheath and the inner sheath configured to deliver irrigation fluid to the surgical site. The distal end of the inner sheath may extend beyond the distal end of the outer sheath. Each of the inner and the outer sheath may be coupled to the hub by an annular sealing member configured to create fluid-tight seal between the hub and the respective inner and outer sheath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Stryker European Operations Limited
    Inventors: Masaya Yamamoto, Guillaume Gras, Hidefumi Ota
  • Patent number: 12044627
    Abstract: This defect inspection device for emitting illumination light onto a moving and rotating sample and inspecting for sample defects by scanning the sample in a spiral shape or concentric circle shapes comprises: an illumination and detection unit comprising an emission optical system and a detection optical system; a rotary stage for rotating the sample; a rectilinear stage for rectilinearly moving the rotary stage; and a controller for controlling the illumination and detection unit, rotary stage, and rectilinear stage. On the linear path of the rectilinear stage are a scanning start position where illumination light is emitted onto the sample and scanning is started and a sample delivery position where movement of the sample to the scanning start position starts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Masaya Yamamoto, Toshifumi Honda, Masami Makuuchi, Nobuhiro Obara, Shunichi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20240214188
    Abstract: The information processing method according to the present disclosure is for a device, and allows for sharing, between a home-appliance main microcontroller (13) and a communication module (11), a shared key that is an encryption key of a common-key cryptosystem for protecting a communication path (12) between the home-appliance main microcontroller (13) and the communication module (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Masaya YAMAMOTO, Koji OKUNO, Manabu MAEDA, Yuji UNAGAMI
  • Publication number: 20240118223
    Abstract: A surface inspection device (1) according to the present invention comprises: a plate-shaped sample holding member (3) which can hold a sample (2); a spindle motor (4) for rotating the sample holding member (3); a turntable (5) which is fixed to the spindle motor (4) and rotated by the spindle motor (4); a frame (6) to which the spindle motor (4) is fixed; a plurality of support members (12) each having one end fixed to the sample holding member (3) and the other end fixed to the turntable (5), the support members supporting the sample holding member (3) such that the sample holding member is displaceable in a focus direction which is the height direction with respect to the turntable (5); and a sample drive unit (11) which displaces the sample holding member (3) in the focus direction with respect to the turntable (5). This surface inspection device (1) can accurately drive the sample (2) in the focus direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Katsuhiko KIMURA, Yoshihiro SATOU, Masaya YAMAMOTO, Ayumi TOMIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240096667
    Abstract: A defect inspection device in which an optical axis of a detection optical system is inclined with respect to a surface of a sample, and an imaging sensor is inclined with respect to the optical axis, a height variation amount of an illumination spot in a normal direction of the surface of the sample is calculated based on an output of a height measuring unit, a deviation amount of the focusing position with respect to the light receiving surface in an optical axis direction of the detection optical system is calculated based on the height variation amount of the illumination spot, the deviation amount of the focusing position being generated accompanying a height variation of the illumination spot, and the focus actuator is controlled based on the deviation amount of the focusing position, and scattered light intensities at the same coordinates of the sample are added.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Hiromichi YAMAKAWA, Toshifumi HONDA, Yuta URANO, Shunichi MATSUMOTO, Masaya YAMAMOTO, Eiji ARIMA
  • Patent number: 11914750
    Abstract: An information management device includes: an obtainer that obtains first company information and personal information from a first company, the first company information relating to a first product or service of the first company, the personal information relating to a user who has purchased the first product or who has been provided with the service; a company information storage that stores the first company information obtained; a personal information storage that stores the personal information obtained; an integrator that integrates the company information and the personal information based on a purchase record or a use record to generate integrated information, the purchase record indicating that the user has purchased the first product, the use record indicating that the user has used the service; and a manager that manages an output of the integrated information based on restriction information for restricting an output destination of the integrated information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Kozuka, Kohsuke Yamamoto, Tomoki Ogawa, Masaya Yamamoto, Junya Suzuki, Hiroki Urabe
  • Publication number: 20230142646
    Abstract: This illumination optical system comprises a laser light source 301, 401, 501, a light collection optical system 311, 411, 511, and a support structure 312, 412 that is able to secure the laser light source and the light collection optical system, wherein the light from the laser light source is focused onto an object to be inspected 307, 407, 507. The light collection optical system comprises a cylindrical mirror 306, 406, 506, and at least one cylindrical lens 304, 404a, 404b, 404c, 504a, 504b, 504c. The cylindrical mirror is an optical element that collects light in a first direction, and the cylindrical lens is an optical element that collects light in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The focal distance of the cylindrical lens to the object to be inspected is greater than the focal distance of the cylindrical mirror to the object to be inspected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Akihiro IWAMATSU, Shunichi MATSUMOTO, Masaya YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11636877
    Abstract: A content recording apparatus includes an obtaining unit which obtains a content having a variable-length packet structure, an encrypter which generates encrypted data by encrypting the content, and a recorder which records the encrypted data in a block unit having a fixed length in a recording medium. The encrypted data includes an invalidated region unnecessary for reproduction of the content. The recorder records a size of the invalidated region in the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Fukushima, Tokuo Nakatani, Nobuyuki Enoki, Kazuhiro Mochinaga, Masaya Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20230054393
    Abstract: An incentive granting system grants an incentive to CO2 reduction traveling by a user of the vehicle that directly or indirectly emits CO2. The incentive granting system includes one or more processors, and is configured to grant a reward point to the user, in the vehicle traveling from a current location to a destination, based on at least one of selection of a traveling route in which a CO2 emission amount is reduced with respect to a standard traveling route, selection of a traveling mode, and reduction of an actual CO2 emission amount with respect to a standard CO2 emission amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiji Kaita, Masaya Yamamoto, Takahiko Hirasawa
  • Publication number: 20230033586
    Abstract: An in-vehicle control device mounted on a vehicle includes an electronic control unit configured to determine that there is a possibility that damage to a bottom portion of the vehicle occurs when a vertical acceleration, which is an acceleration in a vertical direction of the vehicle, or a vertical acceleration increase rate, which is an amount of increase in the vertical acceleration per unit time, reaches a first threshold value or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiji KAITA, Masaya Yamamoto, Koichi Kojima, Takahiko Hirasawa
  • Publication number: 20230009176
    Abstract: A second busbar is provided that has a second electrode terminal and a second connection terminal. A first busbar is provided that has a first electrode terminal, a lateral side coupler, an overhang, and a first connection terminal. The first electrode terminal and/or the second electrode terminal has a protruding piece for connection (connecting protrusion). This protruding piece is elastically depressible in response to contact with an electrode surface of a capacitor element unit inserted from an opposite side of the lateral side coupler across a space between the first and second electrode terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Takashi MORI, Masaya YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11546429
    Abstract: A device management system includes: a server; base stations for long-distance wireless communication; and a device that communicatively connect to one of the base stations and that each sequentially transmit, to the server via the one base station, operation information indicating the current operation state of the device. Upon sequentially receiving the operation information, each of the base stations sequentially transmits, to the server, unique information unique to the base station together with the sequentially received operation information. The server sequentially receives, and sequentially stores in association with each other, the operation information and the unique information. When first and second unique information received at first and second times, respectively, are different, the server separately manages first operation information received in a first period ending at the first time and second operation information received in a second period starting at the second time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTRLLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuki Yamada, Masayuki Kozuka, Kunio Gobara, Shinya Nakai, Masaya Yamamoto, Tomoki Ogawa, Junya Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20220373479
    Abstract: In this sample stage that adsorbs and holds a sample, the configuration includes: an outer circumference stage that has a first adsorption surface and a pressure receiving chamber that is a recess formed in the center thereof; an inner circumference stage that has a second adsorption surface, and that is housed in the pressure receiving chamber and can project upward from the outer circumference stage; a first flow channel for a sample desorption operation that is formed on the outer circumference stage and is opened on the first adsorption surface; a second flow channel for the sample desorption operation that is formed on the outer circumference stage and the inner circumference stage and is opened on the second adsorption surface; and a third flow channel for inner circumference stage elevating driving that is formed on the outer circumference stage and is opened in the pressure receiving chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventor: Masaya YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220375499
    Abstract: A content recording apparatus includes an obtaining unit which obtains a content having a variable-length packet structure, an encrypter which generates encrypted data by encrypting the content, and a recorder which records the encrypted data in a block unit having a fixed length in a recording medium. The encrypted data includes an invalidated region unnecessary for reproduction of the content. The recorder records a size of the invalidated region in the recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Toshiyuki FUKUSHIMA, Tokuo NAKATANI, Nobuyuki ENOKI, Kazuhiro MOCHINAGA, Masaya YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220317058
    Abstract: This defect inspection device for emitting illumination light onto a moving and rotating sample and inspecting for sample defects by scanning the sample in a spiral shape or concentric circle shapes comprises: an illumination and detection unit comprising an emission optical system and a detection optical system; a rotary stage for rotating the sample; a rectilinear stage for rectilinearly moving the rotary stage; and a controller for controlling the illumination and detection unit, rotary stage, and rectilinear stage. On the linear path of the rectilinear stage are a scanning start position where illumination light is emitted onto the sample and scanning is started and a sample delivery position where movement of the sample to the scanning start position starts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Masaya YAMAMOTO, Toshifumi HONDA, Masami MAKUUCHI, Nobuhiro OBARA, Shunichi MATSUMOTO